Denmark approved
the AdditionalProtocol to theConvention for the Protection of Individuals with
regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data,
regarding supervisory
authorities and transborderdata flows (ETS
181). TheProtocolwill enter into
force for Denmark on 1 July 2015.

San
Marino signed
the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to
Automatic Processing of Personal Data (ETS
No. 108)

The Ad hoc Committee on data protection
(CAHDATA) of the Council of Europe approved on 3 December 2014,
after discussions and amendments, the modernisation proposals of the
Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to
Automatic Processing of Personal Data (Convention 108) during its
3rd and last meeting held in Strasbourg on 1-3 December 2014. A
draft amending Protocol will be prepared on this basis and
transmitted to the Committee of Ministers for examination and
adoption.

Letter of the Chair of the T-PD and of Article 29 Working Party,
sent to the Cybercrime Committee of the Council of Europe in
relation to the scenarios on transborder access to personal data

(28/06/2013) "Web
tracking": International Working group on Privacy in
Telecommunications (Berlin Group) demands better protection of privacy - Respect
for context, transparency and control remains essential. (11/06/2013)
Committee of Ministers adopts Declaration on Risks to Fundamental
Rights stemming from Digital Tracking and other Surveillance
Technologies.

In a
Declaration issued to
governments, the Committee of Ministers say that legislation allowing
for overly broad surveillance of citizens can challenge their privacy
and have a chilling effect on their freedom
of expression and the freedom of the media.

This Handbook is a comprehensive
guide to European data protection law designed to familiarise
legal practitioners who are not specialised in the field of data
protection with this area of law. It provides an overview of the
EU’s and the CoE’s applicable legal frameworks and explains key
jurisprudence of both the European Court of Human Rights and the
Court of Justice of the European Union.

You go somewhere, you buy something, you apply for a job, you pay your bills : you live ... and at each of those moments of your life, your personal information is used, collected, processed. In order to protect your right to private life, with regard to the automatic processing of your personal data, the Council of Europe elaborated the "Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data".

30 years after its entry into force, this Convention still remains the only binding international legal instrument in the field, with a potential worldwide scope of application.